Sara

Updates in the Life of Sara

Bullet form updates because there's much too much to catch up on for full length sentences.

• Currently writing my thesis. It's on the Aztec Sun Stone. I'll be glad when I'm done with it and have finally presented it in December.
• I hate my French class more and more with each passing day because (and I'll own up to this) I am awful with languages. I'm not ashamed of that fact. I'm very okay with that fact.
  
• I have been painting a lot more lately. I'm not so intimidated by my paint brush anymore. I'm also not intimidated by my pencils anymore. It's fantastic.
• I'm a senior in college. Finally. I'm very over school. I've always been the brainy chick. I'm quite done with that. I'm content to be the stay-at-home artsy chick who likes to decorate and paint and who occasionally breeds her corgis.
  
• I have a torn right bicep muscle and currently can't lift anything heavier than a fork. Not exaggerating. Pop cans cause excruciating pain.
• The aforementioned torn bicep muscle has put a damper on my recently acquired nightly racquetball hobby. I'm going out of my mind without it.
• I feel very inadequate lately. School-wise. I've been pulling great grades. I even pulled an A on my French test (no one was more surprised than me, let me tell you). But I'm still feeling inadequate. It might be because I'm surrounded by people who are all hyped about school right now because they're not seniors still having to take care of their French requirement for the art history major. It might be because I don't care and these gung-ho girls surrounding me make me feel inadequate because I just don't have that level of enthusiasm lately and I feel like I should. It also might be because I am an idiot for feeling inadequate merely because I'm quite ready to graduate and I realize that I'm an idiot for feeling inadequate for that.
• My step-sister is getting married in a month and she is making the bridesmaids get dresses from David's Bridal. I thought that brides these days had realized that actual "bridesmaid dresses" are generally hideous and can never be used again. I allowed her to get a dress from Banana Republic or Anthropologie for my wedding. This is how she repays me. With taffeta. Shiny blue taffeta. David's Bridal is an abomination of a store.
• Jeremy had to get a root canal on a tooth that hadn't been filled correctly years ago so is now dead--$969. That was really fun. Love handing over the debit card for that.
• If I don't start doing better on my diet I'll throw myself off a cliff. My doctor put me on a medication for my nerve pain (which WASN'T nerve pain) that caused a 25 lb weight gain in....drum roll please...1.5 months. Yes. One and one half months. Unnatural! And completely awful. Come to find out that the pain I've had all my life is because of a magnesium deficiency and all I needed to do was go to the health foods store and buy some Dolomite (which is a fancy name for Calcium and Magnesium in one little pill). $3.69. I was paying $60 a month for the Lyrica. $3.69 for 6 months of Dolomite and the best part is, I can finally lose the weight instead of battling intensely to keep it from continuing to go up on that stupid medication. (Why don't doctors get the whole "vitamins and minerals" thing? Tons of tests and they never thought, "Hey, let's check her magnesium levels.") So that's my current pre-occupation. Getting back to where I was pre-Lyrica. It's slow, but I'm getting there. I feel pray to the Symphony chocolate bar this week. And hot chocolate because it's unseasonably cold here.
• The feeling of inadequacy I mentioned earlier may also be because of this weight.
  
• I purchased a new Macbook for the writing of my thesis. It's a lifesaver and I love it. I currently can't lift it very easily though because of my injured arm. I can lift it with my left hand but it's awkward because I'm just not used to that.
• Someone offered to buy my paintings the other day. I'm very excited about that. I plan on opening an eBay store now that I know that hey, people like what I do. So we'll see how the eBay store thing goes.
  

And that is about it for now. I plan on writing with more frequency from now on.

posted by Sara @ 11:52 PM Comments: 2